Shamatha Research Team

​The Shamatha Project involves a collaborative team of over 40 investigators and consulting scientists from universities across the US and Europe.

Principal Investigator:
Clifford Saron, Ph.D.   (Research Scientist)

Contemplative Director:
Alan Wallace, Ph.D.​

Current Staff and Trainees:
Alea Skwara, MA (Ph.D. Student)
Quinn Conklin, MA (Ph.D. Student)
Brandon King, MA (Ph.D. Candidate)

Former Staff and Trainees:
Anthony Zanesco, Ph.D. 
Jen Pokorny, Ph.D.
Alex Norman, Ph.D.
Kezia Wineberg
Sarah Huffman  
Chivon Powers, Ph.D.  
Stephen Aichele, Ph.D.
David Bridwell, Ph.D.
Anahita Hamidi, Ph.D.
Tonya Jacobs, Ph.D.
Shiri Lavy, Ph.D.
Katherine MacLean, Ph.D.​

Senior Investigators:
Baljinder Sahdra, Ph.D.
Emilio Ferrer, Ph.D.
George R. Mangun, Ph.D.
Phillip Shaver, Ph.D.

Collaborating Scientists:
Anthony Zanesco, Ph.D. ​(U Miami)
Susan Bauer-Wu, Ph.D. (U Virginia)
Karen Bales, Ph.D. (UC Davis)
Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Firdaus Dhabhar, Ph.D. (Stanford)
Elissa Epel, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Hirokata Fukushima, Ph.D. (Kansai U)
Paul Grossman, Ph.D. (U Basel Hospital) 
Perla Kaliman, Ph.D.
Jue Lin, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco) 
Synthia Mellon, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Jonathan Schooler, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara)
Jonathan Smallwood, Ph.D. (U York)

Consulting Scientists:
Ruth Baer, Ph.D. (U Kentucky)
Richard Davidson, Ph.D. (U Wisconsin-Madison)
Mingzhou Ding (U Florida)
Paul Ekman, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Barry Giesbrecht, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara)
Amishi Jha, Ph.D. (U Miami)
Antoine Lutz, Ph.D. (Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRL)
Margaret Kemeny, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Charles Raison, M.D. (Emory)
Matthieu Ricard (Shechen Monastery)
Manish Saggar, Ph.D. (Stanford)
Akaysha Tang, Ph.D. (U New Mexico)
Ewa Wojciulik, Ph.D. (UC Davis)
Owen Wolkowitz, M.D. (UC San Francisco)